My all-time fave would be the Convair B-58 Hustler. There was just nothing else like it at the time; large thin delta wing, small wasp waisted fuselage, four podded engines as well as fuel and bombs carried in a large pod beneath the aircraft. She was the first true 'weapons system', could fly at supersonic speeds and at one point held several world records thanks to her blistering performance. Sadly she was a brief but bright light in the aviation world with just 116 built and a ten year service life sadly terminated in 1970.

"Rolling..." B-36H serial 51-5734 Film 'Strategic Air Command' 1955 - Six Turning and Four Burning!

A very difficult choice, i grew up in Boston Lincs and my school was Buzzed everyday by F111's awesome noise, awesome sight, but then in the summer hols i used to spend with my Auntie at Coningsby and i grew very fond of the F4's there.

An easy choice i here you say, well it would of been until one day me and my day heard a strange engine sound, kind of like an airliner low level. We both looked round and saw the strangest pair of aircraft ever...... Warthogs what the!!!!!!!

The B-58 is a plane that should be seen more.. It was pretty revolutary in its time. Just like the XB-70. If only they kept the progame alive. But the B-1 and the now B-1B (smaller version) is just a take off of those town designs.

Personal favourites are the Phantom, Harrier, Jaguar, Lightning, Mig 25, Su-22, A-10 to name but a few, but the good old Buccaneer... Oh how I wish you could still see this low level in the valleys! :-)

There is always something about the "swing-wing" aircraft that has always had great appeal, the likes of the F-14, F-111, B-1B and the afformentioned SU-22 but I have to say my all time favourite is the Tornado, be it the sleek looking F-3 or the more robust looking "mud mover" in the GR-series.

All this said Typhoon is looking better and better every time you see it as it's pushed towards it's envelope....

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I have to say my all time favourite is the Tornado, be it the sleek looking F-3 or the more robust looking "mud mover" in the GR-series.

An interesting choice. At first sight the Tornado has not much going for it. It has all the grace of a 'Tonka'toy hence the nickname, it has almost always worn drab military camo schemes, does not do stunning aerobatics at airshows, is dead common and has been around in numbers for well over 20 years. Yet it does grow on you and compared with the much prettier and more blended new types like the Rafale and the Typhoon the 'Tonka' does have a presence. There have been a lot of anniversary colour schemes over the years as well.

A couple of months ago I spent a week in a log cabin at Kielder in Northumberland and the dam is used by the RAF as an inward waypoint into the Spadeadam ranges. It was great to see Tornadoes screaming past at just a few hundred feet and at many knots!

My fave Tornado colour scheme would be the original two-tone grey worn by the West German Marineflieger in their early years, before they went camo like all the others.

Michael

"Rolling..." B-36H serial 51-5734 Film 'Strategic Air Command' 1955 - Six Turning and Four Burning!

Speaking about post WWII aircraft, my choice goes to the Phantom, (closely followed by the F-14 and the F-18) why?
Well, it was the first superfighter, it was sold to twelve nations and more than 5000 were produced.
Since 1970 it has being replaced by the F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, Tornado and it's still in service in Japan, Iran, Germany, South Korea, Greece, Egypt and Turkey.

I don't know if the F-16CJ it's a better Wild Weasel aircraft than the F-4G was.

Following their arrival in Israel four F-4s broke the sound barrier over Cairo.
During the attrition war the Israeli Phantom made log range raids on Egypt and Syria.
Egypt asked the Soviet Union for help. The Soviet Union knew that the best option to counter the F-4 raids was the Su-15 but they didn't wanted to deploy the aircraft outside their borders so they sent MiG-21s and SAMs operated by soviet personnel. Late several of the soviet MiGs were shoot down in an anbush made by F-4s and Mirages, all flown by aces.

The Soviet Union only got an aircraft similar to the F-4 when the Su-27 was deployed.

Their successors, the F-14 and the F-15, were never built or exported in the same numbers.

More F-16s were built and exported but the F-16 it's not in the same class of the F-4.

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what is your favorite combat aircraft of all time?

hello guys i am aloso new here.So favorite aircraft for me is with no doudt F-15E strike eagle but i also love F-16 cause its one of the aircraft i saw very close.But i can not ignore the rusian beast which is SU-27.And from WWII also BF-109